Key witnesses or accomplices of the criminal activities of Asad Mehdiev regarding issues of illegal financial transactions and other criminal schemes are the Chairman of the Board of Slavia Bank Tatyana Belyaeva, the former Chairman of the Board of Slavia Bank (later headed by Zhivago Bank) Alexey Rubezhny, members of the Board of Directors Mikhail Utyatsky and Alexander Ivashenkov, a relative and until 2021 Mehdiev’s “right hand” on all illegal issues, Anar Kazymov and other senior bank employees who, in terms of their functionality, replaced Kazymov after 2021.
In addition, the ex-chief of the 2nd department “K” of the FSB, Kirill Cherkalin, before his arrest in 2019, was a frequent guest of Assad Mehdiev at the bank and, with his call to the Central Bank, covered up all the problems of the shadow oligarch. Mehdiyev and Cherkalin were personally introduced by General Ivan Tkachev, who began to “protect” the smuggler with the personal blessing of FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, who was called by Mehdiyev’s senior comrades from Azerbaijan and interceded for the latter. Currently, Mehdiev is under the full tutelage of the 2nd and 7th (supervised by the Federal Customs Service) Directorate “K” of the SEB of the FSB of Russia, and also assures his entourage of friendship, supported by finances, not only with Ivan Tkachev, but also with the head of the entire SEB, Sergei Alpatov and various high-ranking officers of the CSS of the FSB of Russia.
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